Jo's sweet and sour .RECORD signing Jo (photo) will return to strengthen Euro hopes that the Blues against Midtjylland in Denmark next week.
But the Brazilian missed a Premier League until the first trip to Sunderland three days later.
Disappearance of Brazil in the semi-finals of the Olympic Games this week does not mean a return fastest for the 21-year City cost of more than £ 20m from CSKA Moscow this summer.
Until now, fans saw the little height attacker who has played only 74 minutes of UEFA Cup qualification win EB / Streymur in the Faroe Islands before heading out of China and the Olympics.
Brazil now has a bronze medal in the competition match before Jo may return to England. He is due back in the country on Saturday and will resume training on Monday before boarding another plane for a trip much shorter than the 13-hour trek of the Chinese capital.
Blues boss Mark Hughes is happy to get Jo back, but also a little frustrated that his first choice not to forward has played more than a little party for Brazil in Beijing.
"We lost Jo for some time and has not been a lot of football either," lamented the city chief whose short reign has so far been plagued by bad luck on the injury front.
"We sent him away with the best wishes and with the hope that it would be good game for some time, but it has not happened like that.
"Coming to the last ten or fifteen minutes, even if they were competitive games, is not the ideal preparation for the Premier League."
There have been suggestions from those around the Brazilian city that fans may have to be patient with the young as it moves into a new country and the pace of top flight.
Margin of manoeuvre
Hughes is happy to give the reader a certain margin of manoeuvre and agreed that adaptation is difficult for scorers, but the manager will hope for an instant return.
"Jo could take a little time to get up to speed," said the director.
"At present, it will return on Saturday morning and training with us on Monday.
"Sometimes it is difficult for strikers to foreign countries to come here and settle quickly, but others come here and be an instant success. Jo certainly has the ability to adjust very quickly and it will give us a presence from the outset that we lacked in the last couple of games.
"It is a great guy and in the air, it is exceptionally gifted. It will give us a lot, once it is available."
Jo will join a strike force which has been boosted by a return to training of Rolando Bianchi, but it will have to wait for November to join two others in the team as Benjani and Darius Vassell begin their recovery from serious injuries.
"It will be Touch and Go between Benjani and Darius, who will return first," revealed the director.
"We are probably looking back at the same time, but we are talking probably three months."
Benjani, however, is more optimistic and said: "It's So Far So Good. Over the next two weeks, I hope to start running. If you are injured, it takes a few weeks to regain your fitness. I do not want to suffer the same injury again. "
The manager is optimistic about another soldier injured in Valeri Bojinov who underwent surgery on Achilles he injured at the Villa at the weekend.
"The operation went well, it is a good prognosis," said the director.
But the Brazilian missed a Premier League until the first trip to Sunderland three days later.
Disappearance of Brazil in the semi-finals of the Olympic Games this week does not mean a return fastest for the 21-year City cost of more than £ 20m from CSKA Moscow this summer.
Until now, fans saw the little height attacker who has played only 74 minutes of UEFA Cup qualification win EB / Streymur in the Faroe Islands before heading out of China and the Olympics.
Brazil now has a bronze medal in the competition match before Jo may return to England. He is due back in the country on Saturday and will resume training on Monday before boarding another plane for a trip much shorter than the 13-hour trek of the Chinese capital.
Blues boss Mark Hughes is happy to get Jo back, but also a little frustrated that his first choice not to forward has played more than a little party for Brazil in Beijing.
"We lost Jo for some time and has not been a lot of football either," lamented the city chief whose short reign has so far been plagued by bad luck on the injury front.
"We sent him away with the best wishes and with the hope that it would be good game for some time, but it has not happened like that.
"Coming to the last ten or fifteen minutes, even if they were competitive games, is not the ideal preparation for the Premier League."
There have been suggestions from those around the Brazilian city that fans may have to be patient with the young as it moves into a new country and the pace of top flight.
Margin of manoeuvre
Hughes is happy to give the reader a certain margin of manoeuvre and agreed that adaptation is difficult for scorers, but the manager will hope for an instant return.
"Jo could take a little time to get up to speed," said the director.
"At present, it will return on Saturday morning and training with us on Monday.
"Sometimes it is difficult for strikers to foreign countries to come here and settle quickly, but others come here and be an instant success. Jo certainly has the ability to adjust very quickly and it will give us a presence from the outset that we lacked in the last couple of games.
"It is a great guy and in the air, it is exceptionally gifted. It will give us a lot, once it is available."
Jo will join a strike force which has been boosted by a return to training of Rolando Bianchi, but it will have to wait for November to join two others in the team as Benjani and Darius Vassell begin their recovery from serious injuries.
"It will be Touch and Go between Benjani and Darius, who will return first," revealed the director.
"We are probably looking back at the same time, but we are talking probably three months."
Benjani, however, is more optimistic and said: "It's So Far So Good. Over the next two weeks, I hope to start running. If you are injured, it takes a few weeks to regain your fitness. I do not want to suffer the same injury again. "
The manager is optimistic about another soldier injured in Valeri Bojinov who underwent surgery on Achilles he injured at the Villa at the weekend.
"The operation went well, it is a good prognosis," said the director.
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